Matthew Vassar

Matthew Vassar

male, deceased (1868)
Business person in the brewing industry, town, Educator, English American, board of trustees, vassarcollege…women's college
Matthew Vassar (April 29, 1792-June 23, 1868) was a U.S. (English-born) brewer and merchant. He was the founder and eponym of Vassar College in...
Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep

female, 60 years old (new york city)
actress, Best Actress Academy Award winner, film actress, The Devil Wears Prada, Kramer vs. Kramer, Drives a Prius…Vassar College alumni, vassarcollege, graduate of vassar
Born on June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey Meryl Streep is said to be the greatest living actress in Hollywood today by the film fraternity and...
Education: …Vassar College, B.A. Degree at Vassar College, Degree Drama at Vassar College
Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop

female, deceased (1979)
American Poet Laureate, American women writer, American Poets Laureate, writer, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, poet…Vassar College alumni, vassarcollege
Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 - October 6, 1979), was an American poet and writer. She enjoyed critical acclaim in her lifetime, and her...
Lisa Kudrow

Lisa Kudrow

female, 46 years old
Friends actor, friends, phoebe buffay, actor, not so hot without makeup, INFP…Vassar College alumni, vassarcollege
Lisa Marie Diane Kudrow (born July 30, 1963) is an Emmy Award- and SAG-winning American actress best known for her role as Phoebe Buffay in the...

Michael Joyce

male, 64 years old
Iowa Writers Workshop, Modernism, Storyspace, afternoon a story, War outside Ireland a novel, Twilight, a symphony a hyperfiction…vassarcollege, professor of English at Vassar College
Michael Joyce (b. 1945) is a professor of English at Vassar College. He is also an important author and critic of hypertext fiction and electronic...
Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper

female, deceased (1992)
Women in the United States Navy, American military personnel of World War II, Harvard Mark I, Programming language designer, Yale University alumni, computer programming…Vassar College alumni, vassarcollege
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the...

Mary McCarthy

female, deceased (1989)
American women writer, Playwright, author, From Seattle, Vassar College alumni, American…vassarcollege
Mary Therese McCarthy was an American author and critic. She was politically active for many years.
Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum

female, 39 years old
roman à clef, Columbia University, My Misspent Youth, The Quality of Life Report, Vassar College alumni, Los Angeles Times…vassarcollege, B.A. from Vassar
Meghan Daum is an American author, essayist, and journalist. Although she was born in California, Daum grew up primarily in Ridgewood, New Jersey....
Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar

male, 46 years old
Husband of a Fanatic, Passport Photos, Poetics/Politics, Tears for the N.R.I, World Bank Literature, Bombay-London-New York…vassarcollege, professor of English at Vassar College
He is the author of Husband of a Fanatic (The New Press, 2005 and Penguin-India, 2004), Bombay-London-New York (Routledge and Penguin-India, 2002),...
Eamon Grennan

Eamon Grennan

male, 68 years old
Grennan, oedipus at colonus, Harvard University, from County Dublin, University College, Dublin, Literature of Brazil…vassarcollege, professor of English at Vassar College
Eamon Grennan (1941 -) is an Irish poet born in Dublin. He has lived in the United States, except for brief periods, since 1964. He is Dexter M....